Appendix B
Statement of Task
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine project staff from the Board on Health Care Services in collaboration with the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences will undertake all activities necessary for a 2-day public workshop to explore mechanisms that might improve care to meet the needs of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), connected to sustainable payment models that can be adopted by organizations. While many health systems, public health, and social service systems are redesigning their programs and processes to address the current siloed nature of care and service delivery, there remains a gap in understanding how to reliably implement organizational behavior change initiatives to better serve people living with ADRD. Possible health outcomes and care processes that may be explored as highly responsive to hospital organizational behavioral changes include
- health care-associated infections;
- in-facility safety (mobility promotion, fall prevention, physical restraints);
- mentation management services (evaluating and addressing psychological and psychiatric symptoms);
- care transitions (including medication reconciliation); and
- person-centered care (assessments of what matters to people living with ADRD, including person-centered care goals and advance care planning).
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will define the specific topics to be addressed, develop the agenda, and select and invite speakers and other participants. After the workshop, a proceedings of the workshop will be prepared by a rapporteur, reviewed according to National Academies’ report review procedures, and publicly released on the National Academies Press website. Background materials distributed for the workshop, presentation slides, and the like will be made available on the National Academies’ website.